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PoPStat-COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19
Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake, Lelumi Edirisinghe +8
Understanding how population age structure shapes COVID-19 burden is crucial for pandemic preparedness, yet common summary measures such as median age ignore key distributional fea…
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Devising PoPStat: A Metric Bridging Population Pyramids with Global Disease Mortality
Tharaka Fonseka, Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake +7
Understanding the relationship between population dynamics and disease-specific mortality is central to evidence-based health policy. This study introduces two novel metrics, PoPDi…